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1FM ' (COMM0MWEALTH LAXtOBST dUCULATTOIT of ay Zl&fifax County If ewspsper Established 1832. ADVHIITIXSZITO inaSun m xsAOTzmn oa&ouzxa L. ZULLfl BUT mix vol. XXXI. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1915. NUHBER 1. ! Among their New Year Resolutions a number of my friends inform me they have made do their Business this year. is a eood one C7 won't be hard In Part He Said, ."And We AH Loved Him, Jew and Christian, Together and We Loved Him for His Genial Soul," Ftc. one me to Crocery with This and to keep, for take pleasure helping. I'll in Remember, you cannot lose by trad ing with me; be sides, I greatly ap preciate your or ders, and will give you the Very Best in Quality and will make prices as low as I can. I thank you for your patrnas;e. Call It Pays You Goods Delivered Piomptly Clae Vaughan NOW that the Christmas activities a"e-tv' 2!id you have time to read, your first care should be vour EYES. .i.ii 1-t' h'jl'i J-ci.--r mr, :rrr wrach causes an eve strain be replaced with a the changed My should pur to meet ! r condition or your eyes. stock ot Classes is or hrst class Quality both as to lenses and frames, and prices are the very lowest-. $ 1 .00 gets you a pair in solid nickel frames, $2.50 in 1 5 year guaranteed gold filled frames. Bring along that watch that won't keep time. B. W. Martin, Jeweler Witb E. T. Whiiehead Company Executors' Notice. Having qualified as executors of the estate of Noah Biggs, deceased thi3 is to notify all persons having claims against the said estate to pre sent them to the undersigned on or before December 31, 1915, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recover v All persons indebted to said estate will please make immt-di ate settlement. All Demons due or having claims against the firm of Biggs & Johnson will please make immediate settlement with Dr. K M. Johnson, surviving partner. This 28th day of December, 1914. F. P. Shields, Jas. A. Pittman, R. M. Johnson. Executors. Inspired Famous Hymn. "Jesus, Lover of My Soul," la hymn around which many tradition and sacred associations cling. Tb etory connected -with Its origin may be legendary, but It Is no less beauti ful. Its author, Charles Wesley, waf Bitting at his desk by an open win dow when a bird pursued by a bawlf flew In. The bird was saved, fnr.th hawk feared to lollow It. The iuci--dent Inspired Wesley to writs hUJ rmouaUnep. Greensboro Daily News. A large audience gathered in Tem ple Emanu-El on Friday evening to hear Rab'ni J. Friedlander deliver the memorial address on the life of David Stern, who died two weeks ago. Mr. Friedlander said: "The cataclysm of unparalleled horrors into which Europe has plunged has distracted every com munity in the civilized world, ours included, and in the midst of it all. we, the Jewish community of Greensboro, have sjffered a seri ous personal loss of a character which demands our solemn and rev erent thought. I would not like, and in this matter I am sure that 1 am speaking for all of you, to per mit the passing of David Stern from our midst without expressing in some manner the deep sorrow of our hearts at his demise, and it is only fitting that here in this place wher? he worshipped and in this congrega tion of which he was an honored member, that we should place on record not merely our keen personal sense of the great loss . we have sus tained but also some estimate of the life and character of our departec brother in the faith. In our small community we shall certainly miss him for undoubtedlv he was a power and influence of a kind which few people can properly guage. He was a friend, counsellor and advisor of all who cared to consult him. His advice was diligently sought and re ligiously followed, for it was wiselv given, and was almost always at tended with the best results. He was a friend of the poor, without distinction of creed or color. And they reciprocated his affection for they knew they had in him a trusted .Lafoorftte who would use all his lie? j efforts in their behalf. And we all ! lrvfd him Jaw nrd Christian to gether. We loved him for his genial soul and for the bright mind tha was his, for his gay and buoyant spirit and for his lively conversation, but above all we loved him for the arp-e humanity that was in him which he constantly used for cheer ng the desponding and the down- arid-outers with encouraging speed and often with substantial and ma ter??.! nolo. Ine (asv piece o wru- -g 1 saw ffonj him whs a reconv )en5at;on to assist two young men wtio were sirannva in tnis Town ana wnom m body caed to neiy. Among those who knew him there will be ry -V.v that will not now say: 'Oh! lot the touch of a vanished hfind, Ana in s-ui;a 01 a voice tr.ai is still.' "I am very well ibcut the least entitled to speak of the life and character of David .S'.ern, tor l had known him but tor a little while, un tnree occasions at least, however, I had the oppor tunity in the intimacy of his home to learn a great deal about him for his was a frank and open nature and he revealed himself unreservedly on every subject in which he felt inter ested. But for mnch that I have to say about him I must express my in debtedness to several friends who were kind enough to give me their impressions and their knowledge at first hand of his acts and doings. "In the whole realm of literature there is no more interesting depart ment than that of biography, for there passes before us a long and interminal gallery of men and wo men in the infinite variety of their personal idiosyncracy and character. S me noble, tome illustrious, some the very reverse, but all of them possessed of distinguishing traits which have helped to sustain the dramatic interest of life and to shape the fortune and history of mankind. And I feel sure that among the dis tinguished men of North Carolina, and especially in the annals of the Guilford county bar association the name of David Stern will find an honorable niche. I am well aware that he did not leave behind him any distinct achievement entitling him to the special homage of the world. no nlendid work m i rt, science or A- literature, no contribution of per MEMORIAL TO DAYID STERN I unknown among their BV tiie DiDDi cDCini iwncD ' and who are so well apostro- ui iiil liAUUi iiLiULmuLiiPhized bv Gray in his 'Elegy of a Country Churchyard': " 'Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to biush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.' "Not every man born is granted an opportunity to display his talents or to distinguish himself in the age or country in which he lives. All f the great men of the world became great mostly through favorable cir cumstances that developed in their life, seizing their flood tide of op portunity to carry them on to fame or for une. If the French revolu tion had not broken out in 1789 there would have been no Napoleon. If the present war had not been waged no one would have known of the military geuius of General Joffre, or von Hindenberg or of von Kluck. Their names would have gone down to posterity unwritten in the scroll of fame. And so it was with David Stern. Here in this cramped en vironmsnt where he could only ex ercise his peculiar gift of eloquence and reasoning in cases of small and pett character what could he do to raise himself to any deserved or crowning position? And yet he was a very remarkable man, not in vir tue of what he accomplished, but in virtue of a striking personality, in virtue of a rare, tense, magnetic spirit which he possessed. The con venentionai biography records what a man did; the true biography re veals what the man was. After all he fine gold of a man is more than his incidental acts, although the two are undoubtedly co-related. "I can touch tonight upon but very few points in David Stern's personality and career. I wish to speak of him as a scholar, as a law yer and orator, and as a man. As a student at the university his record speaks for itself but a few facts in connectioa with it are worth men tioning. He graduated in his class with high honors and was one of the few men who gamed " the highest rank of distinction in the snbject of Philosophy. He was also made a its external parts that we can prop erly judge him. Thef; true measure of a man is to be found in the na ture of his own inner soul, in its psychological quality, in what he is in the secret aspiration of his heart and mind. Every human character reflects more or less the accumu lated influences of his remote ancestors and David Stern repre sented in his life and; character all the nobler and affluent forms of the Jewish spirit. In every respect he was truly a representative Jew for he embodied all the spiritual and in tellectual wealth whkh came down to him through the m; sterious chan nels of heredity. Noising was more evident in his natural projection than these pervasive racial qualities. As Froude said of Disraeli, 'he was Jewish to the very heart of him.' On the few occasions hat I met him he never failed to impress me with his loyalty to Judaism, tie was proud of his Jewish origin and well he might be for he recognized in his racial patrimony a high prerogative of rank and honor. All the great 1 protypes of his race received his un stinted admiration, in one or two respects he reminded jtne vividly of Disraeli whose life I have lately been been reading. He had the same fer tility of ideas, the swie profound imagination and a certain gift of vision without which true genius cannot exist. ' "It has pleased God in His mercy to take our brother from us in the noonday glory of his early morning life. The only consolation we have is the consolation of our religion whatever God doeth is for the best. But his memory will long be endear ed to us. Here in this community which knew him and loved him so well, deep in our hearts will be en graven the vision of that graceful human figure which was the tene ment of a swift and beautiful soul shedding light and radiance on all around him." UNITED STATES HAKES PROTEST. Naval Stores Once Declared Non-Con traband Now Under Embargo. R. F. D. No. 2 News. Washington, Jan. 2.-While no word came from Ambassador Page today as to the character of the re ply Great Britain will make to the American protest against interfer ence with American trade, there were several developments in the general shipping situation. The United States asked Great Britain for information as to how the British statement in November that navai stores would be regarded as non-contraband would be recon ciled in actual practice with the British notification of a week ago that these products are now abso lute contraband. Information is sought as to how cargoes now en route are to be affected. The case of the steamship Brindil la, originally detained at Halifax and re-arrested on her return jour ney from Egypt and taken to a French port, is looked on as likely to produce complications. Should the question of change of registry be raised, a precedent may be set, for, while Great Britain has recognized transfers when of abon- afide nature, the attitude of France has never been declared. The communication which the state department sent today con cerning the naval stores is said to be the first protest on specific articles isted by Great Britain as absolute contraband. Governors and Sena tors of several States were notified of the naval stores protest. Rosin and turpentine had been intended or ballast with cotton cargoes and the British Government is on record as statins: the cargoes so made up Dawsons News Items. member of the Beta Kappa fraterni ty, a select and exclusive body in which only the noblest and most prominent graduates were admitted. He must have shown early evidence his powers of oratory for on two oc casions he represented the Universi ty in debates, once with the Johns Hopkins University and once with he University of Georgia. But ,0 was more than a successful student. He had a versatile taste in scholarship and his reading covered a iae range or subjects, nistory, philosophy,! science, political econo my H of ihes? he deeDlv studied. He was also a great lover of poetry and a cooooisseur of style; all tne subtler forms of verse appealed to him. This wide and diverse scholar- ; . I aware teat 1 am J 0h?r tno-tlipr with his ken analvti- i f , ...... cal mind stamped mm at once as a man of broad culture and enabled him to deal with all intricate ques tions of law and life in an illuminat ing and comprehensive spirit. "I am not going to sav much about him as a lawyer. I am going to leave to the Guilford county bar as sociation the duty of estimating bis professional reputation which, I be lieve, stands very high among his brethren of the bar. In a few short years he won a position as a success ful lawyer. Whenever he was con vinced of the justice of a case he de fended it strenuously and very often carried it to the court of appeal. He was, moreover, possessed of an elo quence of his own. I do not think that it was merely the usual kind of forensic oratory in which he indulg i ed the professional kind of oratory which is patterned upon stereotyped models. He had undoubtedly an eloquence of his own. He first of all marshalled his facts in an orderly precision of statement and round these he wove the warp and woof of his argument. He was keen, alert, lively, carefully balancing facts and weighing opposing factors in his efforts to untangle a complicated problem Here it was that his phil osophic mind came in good stead. He was able to distinguish between fact and fancy, between intuition and suggestion, between prophecy and mere phantasy. "In the field of political oratory he was equally successful and I believe Dawsons, Jan. 5. pisses Thelma and Irene White and Sarah Barnes, of the Teachers Training School, Greenville, are at home spending the holidays with their parents. Mrs. Herman DeBerry has return ed home after, visiting relatives at Crowells. Mr. C. J. Davenport, of Hobgood, spent Sunday here. Dr. O. F. Smith, of Scotland Neck made several professional visits here last week. Misses Ruth and Minnie Parks, of C? oweils, attended a box party at White's school on last Wednesday night. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morris, of Port Norfolk, spent Christmas with the family of Mr. Hassell Bell. Messrs. Raymond and Charles Barnhill are at home from Buie's Creek spending the holidays. Miss Claude Knight, of Scotland Neck, spent a few days here last week nursing Mrs. A. J. Green. Mr. O. P. Stallings has closed his store and it is reported Mr. Tom DeBerry will open business at the same place. . Miss Annie Lawrence gave a box party at her school house Wednes day night which was greatly enjoy ed by a large crowd. A neat sum was realized which will be used to purchase an organ for the school. TRULY FORTUITOUS. The shades of night were falling fast When up the fence row blithely passed, Through cresote and paris green, These grim trespasses on the scene; One army bug, One chinch Bug, One Hessian fly. One cut worm. would not be regarded as contra band. The State Department had no sooner sent notmcation to this effect to shippers than the British roreigh umce published tne new edict. Although this phase of the situa tion was not specifically mentioned in the recent American note, it was generally understood to have been a contributory reason for the dispatch of the document. The Italian Ambassador informed the State Department that while statistics would make it appear that extraordinary amounts oi copper shipped from the United States to Italy might be for unneutral pur p .ses, the fact was that as Germany needed her own copper, Italy could no longer import from countries im mediately north of her but must de pend on the United States for the metal. To prevent recurrence of charges that American shippers had been concealing copper and contraband articles in cotton and other non-con traband cargoes the following form al notice supplimentary to President Wilson's warning of last week, was issued today by Secretary Redfield: "The attention of shippers of goods to neutral countries is called to the importance of having mani fests complete and accurate. It is essential also to avoid mixing con traband goods in cargoes otherwise not contraband. It is alleged that some American manifests have omit ted certain contraband goods, also I that efforts have been made to con ceal contraband articles or to altar their apparent so that they will be allowed to pass. "A single case of the kind is enough to embarrass all American commerce to neutral countries by throwing doubt on the correctness of our manifests and on the neutral nature of our cargoes, thus possibly involving delay through examining cargoes that otherwise would be avoided." R. F. D. No. 2, Jan. 5. Mr. H. L. Knight has returned to his home in Duke, after spending some time with his mother-in-law, Mrs. Lucy Ivey. Miss Agnes Ivey is spending the holidays with her sister in Duke. Mr. Lee Harper and family are spending some time with Mrs. J. M. Quincy and family and Mrs. J. M. Downing and family. Mrs. W. O. Stone, of Louisburg, is spending the week with her daugh ter, Mrs. H. W. Ivey. We are glad to know that little Waverley Ivey is convalescent after being kept in doors so long with fever. We regret very much to lose our neighbor, Mrs. J. M. Quincy, this year. She will move near Leggetts. Messrs. J. C. VanLandingham and S. L. Eisenhart. of Raleigh, have returned home after spending sev eral days with Mr. T. H. VanLand ingham and family. Messrs. W. T. and C. E. VanLand ingham spent several days with their brother, Mr. T. H. VanLandingham, the past week. Mr. M. J. Downing spent several days in the neighborhood with the visitors hunting. Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Bass and two children have returned to their home in Wilson after spending the nolidays with Mr. H. C. Bass and family and Miss Annie Bass. Miss Stella Beatty, of Florida, spent the holidays with Miss Annie Bass. Miss Rebecca Bradley has return ed home after spending a few days in Scotland Neck. Mr. L. J. Whitehead has returned to the medical college in Richmond after spending the holidays at home Miss Stella Beatty gave a very in teresting little play while here for the benefit of the little folks, enti tied, "The Arrival of Mr. Quinn on Christmas Day." Owing to the inclemency of the weather couldn' very many children attend the play. but those who did attend thorough ly enjoyed it. Mr. L. L. Whitehead has returned to Wake Forest College to resume his studies after spending the holi days with his home folks. Mrs. R. H. Bradford has returned to her home in Burgaw after spend ing a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Whitehead. Miss Hattie May Downing spent the week-end with Miss Lillian Mitchell, of Lawrence. Mr. J. W. McDaniel, of Raleigh, spent Christmas with Mr. A. J Whitehead and family, of Roseneath. Miss Frances Purvis from the Teachers Training School, Greenville, for the holidays Mr. Redmond Purvis came home from Richmond to spend Christmas with his home people. we nave an enjoyed a merry Christmas in spite of the hard timep and bad weather. Santa Claus was real liberal to the children, and the Christmas trees supplied the chil dren with so many nice gifts, all enjoy just such hard times. HAPPY The Boy or Giil who finds a in their Christmas stock ing. What more appro priate for Xmas than a gilt that keeps the hap py times of that day and all the days to come. Write us for catalogue. G. L.Hall Optical Co. SucoMte U TUCKER, HALL ft CO. Opticians of The Best Sort 146 Granby Street, Norfolk. RickBMJ. LycUvf. Clee Vaughan, DEALER IN Monuments AND Tombstones Italian, Vermont and Georgia Marble of highest grade, and the best grades of graniU. Will save you money and guarantee quality. We The Patrons' meeting. manent value to the progress of. he was best when speaking upon mankind which could appeal to the ! purely literary and general topics. large outside world as establishing any claim to its recognition in very truth we must acknowledge it in the case of countless numbers of great and good men who for want of op- "Trandscending both in interest and value all professional eminence is a man's own self. In the final es timate we make of man it is not in the superficial aspects of life in all Advancing each before its kind, They gave the wiggle-wag behind, And answering with buzz and whizz Their trusty troops invade, viz: One wheat field, One field of oas. One corn field, One potato patch. The farmer slumbered in his bed While pleasant fancies roamed his head. And dreamed of getting after a bit A few farm luxuries, to-wit: One automobile, One lighting plant, One tractor. One silo. But where the setting sun had shone On opulence remained a bone. Clean-picked as frost denudes the trees, And what the farmer had were these: One sale, One trip to a new farming coun try, One trip back again. One start all over. Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. Studylna Health Insurance. The National Civic federation hat instituted inquiries into the methods in foreign countries of insuring wage earners against misfortune, and as a result the social service department of the federation is considering the desirability of recommending legisla tion to provide for compulsory insur ance for illness. A committee has been in London to study the operation of the national Insurance act of Great Britain. Em ployers were . asked about the cost of the Insurance and its relation to business. Wage earners were asked to give information regarding the ef fects on wage rates, on the conditions of employment, and on their general welfare. Changes In the cost of poor relief and any reduction in the death rate from preventable diseases were Investigated. This general survey will prepare the way for an investigation by a commis sion next, spring, when an effort will be made to bring together all Infor mation which will serve social insur janee purposes in the United State. On New Year's Day at 2:30 p. m., the patrons of Mullen's school met with the teacher. Miss Fannie Sharpe Joyner, in the school room, and en joyed a talk made by Mr. Ashby Dunn, after being introduced by Mr. Robert Joyner. JUr. Dunn advised us now we should strive to live true and noblt lives, so that our children might fol low in our footsteps and grow to be good men and women. He spoke of the work we might do to improvt the schools and the community il the teople would come together We all enjoyed his talk very much and hope to have him with us again After this speech we were treated to hot chocolate and cake, given by Mra. "Coughenour, a sister of th teacher. We wish here to thank Mrs. Coughenour for her treat and ask her to meet with us again. We hope to have all the patrons at the next riieeting and want some ol them to be prepared to make a shot t talk on the betterment work. Wt want all the ladies in the community to join our club and let's see if we can't make some improvement in our school room. Miss Joyner, the teacher, is ready and willing to help the community in any way she can, and she is doing a good work in the school. The patrons must come to gether and help her. "Where there is unity tnere is strength." Mrs. Rufus Cherry, Sec'y Betterment Club. J. E. Woolard Transfer Scotland Neck, North Carolina Cars for hire. Cars repaired. Po lite attention. Quick service. Tel ephones Residence 45, Office 66. J. J. Pittman Livery Scotland Neck, North Carolina Automobiles and livery team for hire. Quick service at reasonable prices. Telephone 73. Allen Allsbrook House Mover Scotland Neck, North Carolina If you are thinking of having a house of any kind moved see me at once. Prices reasonable. Chas. L. Staton Attorney at Law Scotland Neck. North Carolina Practices wherever his services came home I are required. Ashby W. Dunn Attorney at Law Scotland Neck, North Carolina Money to loan on approved secu rity:. Dr. f . D. Kitchin Physician and Surgeon Scotland Neck, North Carolina Office in Postoffice Building over North End Drug Store. Telephones -Office 10, Residence 34. Dr. A. D. Morgan Physician and Surgeon Scotland Neck, North Carolina Office in building formerly used by Br. J. P. Wimberley. Dr. K. L.. Savage Rocky Mount, North Carolina Will be in Scotland Neck on the third Wednesday of each month at the hotel to treat the diseases of the Eye. Ear, Nose, Throat and St glasses Dr. O. F. Smith Physician and Surgeon Scotland Neck, North Carolina Office in the rear of the Crescent Pharmacy. Dr. A. C. Livermon Dentist Scotland Neck, North Caralina Office up-stairs in the Whitehead Building. Office hours from 9 to 1 and 2 to 5 o'clock. C. Speed & W. II. Josey Fire Insurance Agents Scotland Neck, North Carolina Will look after your interest, rep resenting the strongest and most liberal companies. All business ap preciated. Willie H. Allsbrook Life Insurance Scotland Neck, North Carolina ReDresenting the Metropolitan Life insurance Co., of New York. M. T. Walston Livery Scotland Neck, North Carolina Teams for hire, prompt attention. quick service. Bowers & Jones stables.
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